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Originally Posted by reignofchaos  Err how fast a PC boots has nothing to do with performance. I've seen slow ones with single hard drives boot real quick and fast ones boot relatively slowly. For the record my E8400 overclocked to 4GHz running on a P5N32-E SLI and dual 8800 ultras boots slower than my age old AMD Athlon 64 2800+ that is in my media center rig. You can easily run an E8300 with DDR2. The difference between DDR3 and DDR2 on a 333FSB CPU which is not overclocked will be less than 2%. The bandwidth on a C2D is limited by FSB and beyond a certain point, you'd not notice any difference with faster memory. Running 4:5 is slightly faster than running 1:1 but anything more is an overkill. |
Please see the chart and what happens to bandwidth when you use DDR2 with the E8300 processor. There is an extreme drop in bandwidth to be brushed aside. I agree you could use it but would it not be better to use cheaper E7200 and DDR2 memory and beat the hell out of the costlier rig.
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